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Latest Food Processing stories on ABC Western Plains NSW

Livestock agents say they're concerned about the large numbers of breeding stock being sent to slaughter due to drought, drought conditions being experienced in normally lush pastures at Oberon, a town remembers a man larger than life - Jack Buster, cotton pioneer and family man. ...

Bourke cotton growers take advantage of water storage and get planting, women at Broken Hill are lining up to learn welding, Queensland water is a blessing for Walgett farmers who will get a good crop off their Narran Lake country....

Dry dams across the landscape are a depressing sight but they also offer opportunities for change, Walgett irrigators learns lessons from Lubbock Texas, growing good lambs is just the beginning - then comes the marketing....

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In 2017, charity FareShare cooked more than a million meals, prevented 800,000 kilos of food entering landfill, and delivered to more than 400 charities. From a refurbished warehouse in Melbourne, 900 volunteers collect, cook and distribute food to those most in need. FareShare is now ...

We have an efficiency rating on our white goods. Why not on our foods? Agriculture researcher Joseph Poore has developed a food label that shows us how much water, pesticides, emissions and impact on biodiversity has gone into making what we buy in the supermarket. He says it could change both ...

Stingless bees, along with honey bee bees, are two of the around 500 bee species that produce honey. But are there any other honey makers? Yes, says Manu Saunders, paper wasps, including Mexican honey wasps, ants, aphids and scale insects can all produce some kind of honey that have been used by ...

Australia's honey industry is reeling today after international tests reveal that many honey products being sold in supermarkets are fake. Simon Mulvany is the Founder of Save the Bees Australia and he's been in a legal battle with Capilano, Australia's biggest honey producer, over the ...

What is mince? That's the question that has sparked outrage, following a decision by supermarkets to stock plant-based meat alternatives in the meat section of the supermarket. It's even got politicians involved, including the Deputy Prime Minister, who said, "mince is mince, mince is meat". ...